I wish every Christian in America, every lukewarm, comfort-loving, convenience-seeking, spiritually apathetic, passionless believer in Christ would stop and listen to this seven minute excerpt from a David Wilkerson message. Don’t multi-task. Take seven uninterrupted minutes from your day and listen. It might change the rest of your day. It might change the rest of … More Is “Anguish of Soul” the Key to Revival?
Friday is for Heart Songs More evidence of a deep sickness at the core of American society in these shootings in Colorado. Yet another indiscriminate shooting by a young man, heavily armed and taking lives without compunction or remorse. Unfortunately, within days people on the right and left of the political spectrum will start to … More Praying for Colorado and the Nation
Sunday is for Prayer Before Matt Chandler, before Francis Chan, before David Platt, (three young men we should all be thankful for God raising up in this generation), before even John Piper, there was George Verwer. Radical, passionate, creative, missional, fully engaged and calling the Christian world to be more and do more for the … More Revival Will Not Make Spiritual Warfare Easy
Sunday Musings God’s indictment of ancient Israel: “Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.” (Hosea 7:4b) “Oh God, how is this not exactly like what You would say to American Christians? Please Lord, make us different. Don’t let my love for You ever be … More The False and Vaporish Love of American Christians
Wednesday is for Prayer Ours is a culture that desperately needs to gain David’s perspective on what sin is and how serious it is to a holy God. David shows us in Psalm 51. 1 Be gracious to me, O God, . according to Your lovingkindness; . According to the … More What Does Repentance Really Look Like in a Man of God?
Weekend Musings Ever heard of a thing called “dispositional sins”? Me neither. But when my wife sent me this devotional from A.W. Tozer, I knew that I had seen them too often in my own life. Every read of Tozer is an apologetic for reading “older books.” Spiritual Warfare and Sin: Dispositional Sins Let all … More Spiritual Warfare and the Beast Within
Monday Discussion How many servants of God have I met in my 38 years as a Christian who are paralyzed by past mistakes? Too many to count. But we are a people who are “in Christ”, we stand forgiven, our lives have been redeemed, our Lord has promised to restore the years that the locust … More Rut, Rot or Personal Revival?
Friday is for Heart Songs It is almost beyond dispute that the 21st Century church in America is filled with base elements and is a shadow of what Christ would have us be in holiness and purity. We are less than what we ought to be, less than what we could be, and spiritually impoverished … More The Carnality of the American Church
Missional Living Thought Primer: Is it likely that in any church service, there are many present who have not had a life-changing conversion experience?* They may carry Bibles; they may call themselves Christ followers; they may believe they are ‘saved’; they may speak fluent “Christianese”; but they have never truly placed their trust in Christ as their atoning … More Speaking Fluent Christianese Isn’t a Substitute for Knowing Christ
Thursday is for Prayer Update: 10-22-15 Still waiting on the Lord for true revival. How bad will it need to get in our country, in our churches, in our families, around the world, before Christians here become truly passionate for God? For God, not his gifts, not some emotional experience, not their comfort or security, … More Is “Anguish of Soul” the Key to Revival?
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